| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 19 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Machelle Williams. |
| Summary |
A tour-de-force from three-time National Book Award finalist Rita Williams-Garcia, this story of an antebellum plantation-and the enduring legacies of slavery upon every person who lives there-is essential reading for both teens and adults grappling with the long history of American racism. 1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's objections, to sit for a portrait. While Madame plots her last hurrah, stories that span generations-from the big house to out in the fields-of routine horrors, secrets buried as deep as the family fortune, and the tangled bonds of descendants and enslaved. This astonishing novel from award-winning author Rita Williams-Garcia about the interwoven lives of those bound to a plantation in antebellum America is an epic masterwork-empathetic, brutal, and entirely human. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans -- Louisiana -- Juvenile fiction.
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Plantation life -- Louisiana -- Juvenile fiction.
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Louisiana -- History -- 1803-1865 -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Added Author |
Williams, Machelle, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Sitting in Saint James |
| ISBN |
9780063090491 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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006309049X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT15150147 |
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